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Full Name:…………………………….  Mark : …………………./ 20

1 Read the text and answer the questions. Base all your answers on the text.  

Sporting heroes

What makes someone a sporting hero? Millions of spectators watched Usain Bolt running in the 2008
Olympics  in  Beijing.  He  broke  the world  record  in  three  athletics  events.  At  the  same  Olympic  Games,  the
American swimmer Michael Phelps won eight gold medals and broke seven world records. The world media
went crazy! Everyone loves a champion.
But at  the  Olympics  there  is  also another kind of hero. Have  you  ever  seen  the  film Cool Runnings?  It’s  a
funny film about a bobsleigh team from Jamaica. It’s based on the true story of a Jamaican team who
competed in the Winter Olympics in 1988. They lived in a country with no snow, they had nowhere to train
and no money from the government or big businesses to help them, but they made it to the Olympics and they
raced for their country. The Olympic Games have many stories like this.

When Eric Moussambani, from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa, swam in the 100 m freestyle in Sydney in
the 2000 Olympic Games, the international media reported it around the world. He didn’t win a gold medal.
He  didn’t  break  any  records.  In  fact,  his  time  at  one  minute  and  fifty-two  seconds  was  more  than  twice  the
time of Pieter van den Hoogenband, who broke the world record with a time of 47.84 seconds. Before  the
Olympics, Moussambani trained in a twenty-metre hotel pool. He only started swimming eight months before
the Olympic Games. The race was his first time in an Olympic-sized fifty-metre swimming pool. And the
crowd clapped and cheered for Moussambani until he reached the finish line.

These people are not champions and they do not go back to their countries with a handful of medals, but they
are heroes because they try.
2. Are the sentences true or false? Justify. (2 PTS)
1 The Jamaican government gave the bobsleigh team money to compete.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2 The team from Jamaica tried to compete in the Olympics, but they failed.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3 The newspapers and TV journalists were interested in Moussambani.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4 Moussambani swam in a fifty-metre pool for the first time at the Olympics.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

What do the underlined words in the text refer to? (1Pt)

Exercise = (P2) …………………………………..

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Language:
2 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
1 Mike scored three goals in the match and his team _______________ (win)!
2 Who _______ he ________ (come) to the party with?
3 She _______________ (not make) a cake because there weren’t any eggs in the fridge.
4 What _______ you ________ (do) on Saturday evening?
5 They _______________ (not have) dinner at home yesterday.
6 I _______________ (wait) to see the players after the match and got their autographs.

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3 Complete the sentences. Use the past continuous form of the verbs below.

do look not listen not work stand watch

1 What _______ you ________ yesterday at 11 p.m.?

2 Harry _______________ to the teacher so he didn’t know what our homework was.

3 _______ she ________ for the keys? They’re on the kitchen table.

4 They _______________ a DVD when we arrived.

5 Margaret _______________ next to the dog when it bit her.

6 My dad _______________ because it was a holiday.

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4 Put the words in brackets in the corret tense. 

2 It _______________ (snow) when the kids _______________ (go) out.

3 While I _______________ (walk) home, I _______________ (see) Bill at the bus stop.

4 When they _______________ (arrive) home, Mary _______________ (wait) for them.

5 She _______________ (left) while we _______________ (eat) our sandwiches.

6 The electricity _______________ (go) off while Susan _______________ (cook) dinner.

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Vocabulary

5 Choose the correct answers.
1  A lot of school children in the UK ______ cricket.
a go b play c do
2 I ______ fencing when I was younger.
a played b did c went
3 My dad ______ cricket for the village team.

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 a played b did c went
4 She ______ surfing next summer.
a is playing b is doing c is going
5 Some of my friends ______ wrestling.
a play b do c go
6 We don’t ______ badminton very often at our school.
a play b do c go

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6 Read the sentences and complete the words.
1 She broke the _o_ _ _ r_ _ _ _d at the championships. She’s brilliant!
2 Jim and I are going s_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _n_ this winter. He’s going to teach me some tricks.
3 He does w_i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _g and he’s very strong.
4 I think n_ _b_ _ _ is like basketball, but the rules are different.
5 I lay on the surfboard and p_ _ _ _ed to the shore.
6 When my mum was at University, she went r_ _ _ _ g on the river.
7 I love a_ _l_ _ _ _s, especially running and jumping.
8 He came first in the 200 m race and he’s the world _ _a_ _ _ _n.
9 In the USA lots of kids play i_ _ _ _c_ _y in the winter.
10 I love watching winter sports on TV – especially the s_ _ j_ _ _ .

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7  Complete the sentences with the words below. There are two words you do  not need.

champion compete competitors course goal tournament score

1 The race starts in five minutes. The ______________ are feeling nervous.
2 She played in the second half of the match, but she didn’t _______________ a goal.
3 My school is taking part in a tennis _____________ next month. I hope I’m on the team.
4 She loves running, but she doesn’t want to _________________ in a race. It’s just for fun.
5 The Formula 1 ____________ lifted up the winner's trophy and the crowd cheered.

Mark ___/5

Writing
8 You are spending the summer in the UK to learn English and you want to make new friends in your
language school. Write a message to put on the school bulletin board.

 Introduce yourself.
 Describe your personality and say what your hobbies are.

 Say what kind of people you want to meet.

 Tell people how they can contact you.

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